Crime & Safety
15-Year-Old Hayward Boy Died On Train Tracks
Authorities identify Austin Price as the teenager who was struck and killed Thursday night by an Amtrak train in San Lorenzo.
Bay City News -- The boy who was fatally struck by an Amtrak train in San Lorenzo on Thursday evening has been identified as 15-year-old Austin Price of Hayward, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.
Price was struck on the tracks north of the Hayward Amtrak station at about 6:40 p.m., Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said.
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KTVU reported that the accident occurred on the tracks near Lewelling Boulevard and Via Granada, and that authorities believe the teenager who was killed may have been playing a game of dares with three other boys.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Department has not responded to queries about the cause of the incident, or confirmed the KTVU story that Patch reported Thursday night.
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